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By Ajit Ranade |
India’s 74 years of existence as a sovereign independent nation is a minor miracle. At its birth, not many outside…
By Sudarshan Iyengar, Jagdish Rattanani |
The growing influence of large and powerful business conglomerates continue to raise concerns, not only in India but…
By Ajit Ranade |
In 2016 the government led by Prime Minister Modi said that farmers’ in-comes would be doubled by 2022. It was meant to…
By Tushar Gandhi |
To convert a shrine of our independence movement and the life of the couple who lived there into a tourist plaza, an…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The argument that the data from this act of illegal snooping was available not to the Israeli company/group that sold…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The official death count due to Covid-19 in India stood at over 400,000 around mid-July. It is widely understood and…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s young demography has been considered to be its structural advantage. Half the population is below the age of 27…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The draft bill by the Uttar Pradesh government to enforce what is commonly referred to as the two-child norm has caused…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Father Stan Swamy has died. He has found peace and eternal rest and has at last been freed of the tyranny unleashed on…
By Ajit Ranade |
The latest survey indicates that such conviction is ingrained among Indians, and it is for us to reinforce, and harness…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
India’s Non-Performing Assets, or NPAs, the official term for loans that have gone bad, are of the order of nine lakh…
By Ajit Ranade |
Next month we will celebrate 30 years of the launch of economic reforms. On June 21, 1991 Narasimha Rao was sworn in as…
By T Jacob John, Dhanya Dharmapalan |
During the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in India, we had not realised that pregnant women could have serious…
By M A Kalam |
Blind ritualism does not lead to an understanding of what the religion teaches, and the deeper messages are often lost…
By Arup Kumar Dutta |
The “Look East” policy, targeted towards the economic development of North-East India in general and Assam in…